Overview: Support for Docker image LightNVR

Application Name: LightNVR
Application:  https://github.com/opensensor/lightNVR

Summary :

LightNVR is a tiny, memory-optimized Network Video Recorder software written in C. While originally designed for resource-constrained devices like the Ingenic A1 SoC with only 256MB of RAM, it can run on any Linux system.

LightNVR provides a lightweight yet powerful solution for recording and managing IP camera streams. It's designed to run efficiently on low-power, memory-constrained devices while still providing essential NVR functionality with a modern, responsive web interface.

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Please post any questions/issues relating to this docker template you have in this thread.

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Looks neat!

Can this leverage Coral TPU to offload CPU processing?

Unable to login after initial install. After entering default admin/admin, get thrown back to the login screen with message "your session has expired"

I changed the password in the .ini config file but same error.

Edited December 13, 2025Dec 13 by itlists

26 minutes ago, itlists said:

Looks neat!

Can this leverage Coral TPU to offload CPU processing?

I really dont think so.
but ask on their github

26 minutes ago, itlists said:

Unable to login after initial install. After entering default admin/admin, get thrown back to the login screen with message "your session has expired"

I changed the password in the .ini config file but same error.

i really cannot reproduce this .
i just blow up my intall on my dev , and reinstall no issue.
let me know if you really cant login...

3 minutes ago, ZappyZap said:

i really cannot reproduce this .
i just blow up my intall on my dev , and reinstall no issue.
let me know if you really cant login...

can't login at all

On 12/13/2025 at 2:29 AM, itlists said:

can't login at all

I had the same issue if I changed the default port (8080) to anything other that 8080. And I am unable to reconfigure LightNVR to use a different port even after the initial setup.

To reproduce issue: Change port 8080 at initial setup.

9 minutes ago, Switcy said:

Change port 8080 at initial setup

Are you changing the host port or the container port? The container doesn't know and shouldn't care what the host port is set to.

On 12/13/2025 at 12:29 PM, itlists said:

can't login at all

having the same problem; admin/admin gives session expired error message

Same issue here with the Web port not working after initial setup. I had to change the value in the lightnvr.ini file and then it worked.

In my case I set it to 8787 because port 8080 was already taken by another app.

Are you guys able to auto-discover ONVIF cameras?
I always get the "Error discovering ONVIF devices: Not Found" error message whenever I try to discover cameras, both set to "auto" or my actual CIDR.